The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1872 or 1872?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1872?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1872| = ?
The absolute value of 1872 is the distance between 1872 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1872:
Since the distance between 1872 and 0 on a number line is 1872, we get the answer as follows:
|1872| = 1872
Note that the absolute value of 1872 can also be written as abs(1872) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1873
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